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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillAs I have before, I can assure the hon. Gentleman that the border security force in this country works very closely with the PSNI and the Garda Síochána to deal with all potential…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a pleasure to rise after what has been a very full debate, with people having to fit in quite complex points in short amounts of…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. This Bill restores order to an asylum system that was left in chaos by the Conservatives. It puts an end to the failed…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillVery quickly, because I have a lot of points and not much time.12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI certainly hope that that kind of comment might be a joke. I wonder whether that kind of arbitrary treatment of people who are in this country would become the norm for Reform,…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy hon. Friend is right. We inherited a system in total chaos; asylum decision making had all but ground to a halt. Many, many tens of thousands of people were left having claimed…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWe will come to these debates when we get on to debating the new clauses to which the hon. Gentleman is referring. We have been clear from the Government Benches about the balance…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillNone of the changes that I have talked about in the new clauses will impinge at all on the criteria currently used to determine whether somebody has a need for protection under…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillBefore I speak about the key Government amendments tabled on Report, I would like to recall why the Government have brought forward the Bill. We are working to take the necessary…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI commend the hon. Gentleman for his creativity in asking that question when I am talking about this particular Government new clause. I think we had a debate in Committee on the…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillCertainly we will come into the detail of how this works once it is on the statute book, in the guidance that is issued, but I am making it very clear to the House tonight that…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillYes in some circumstances, but no in others, because some people who come over are genuine asylum seekers. Even under the right hon. Gentleman’s Government—when he, too, was in…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI wish to get on with discussing the amendments, but because I served with him on the Intelligence and Security Committee, I will give way to the right hon. Member for South…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI agree that we in this place have to always think about the humanity involved and not try to label everybody who comes into our country when they are claiming asylum as some kind…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe Minister for Citizenship and Migration, my hon. Friend the Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra), has just made it clear to me from the Front Bench that she is very…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillNew clause 8 will deny refugee status to those who commit sexual offences. We also have the work being announced on narrowing article 8, which will allow Parliament to give more…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWe missed the right hon. Gentleman in the Committee. Given the sophistication of the organised immigration crime threat to the country, will he explain why he plans on voting…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am sorry, but I need to get on, because we do not have a lot of time and I think I have been generous. The Government have tabled further amendments, to which I now wish to…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI think they probably call that campaigning, but it is up to them to justify how long they spend in the pub, or indeed in this Chamber. Moving to serious crime prevention orders…12 May 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.12 May 2025